A 3-ton heavyweight super class camera "LSST" of 3 billion pixels challenges the mystery of dark matter

SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryA camera equipped with a super class of 3.2 billion pixels sensor to observe the universe from the earth planned to develop "Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)"The budget proposal for the construction project was approved. A grand plan that was conceived over ten years or more seems to be realized.

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LSST is a huge telescope planned to be built at the summit of Pachyeon in Chile, a super-class "digital camera" that can shoot all the heaven that can observe and record the universe from the earth in just three nights.

This is an image of LSST of 3.2 billion pixels published in 2012. The size is about the size of a small car, so if you compare with the size of the person standing on the upper right of the image, the huge of the LSST is obvious.


LSST weighing 3 tons will be assembled with this feeling.


Originally planned to be installed in 2020 LSST, but after that the plan was delayed due to issues such as raising funds. However, on January 9, 2015 SLAC announced that "LSST's budget was approved and it is planned to start space observation in 2022." The image data taken by the LSST of 3.2 billion pixels is estimated to be a ridiculous amount of data of 6 million GB (6000 TB) in one year, and in order to support the data size of the super class that LSST records, IT companies such as Google are also participating in the LSST project.


When the space observation by LSST starts, it is thought that it can not only observe billions of cosmic stars but also 95% of the universeDark matterIt is expected to come closer to elucidating the mystery of.